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i got it figgured out now--that there rifle only says swift on the barrel--but it gots a thutty calibur sized hole in that there muzzle--i jes know it fer sure...! You still have your old Sako swift?
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i got it figgured out now--that there rifle only says swift on the barrel--but it gots a thutty calibur sized hole in that there muzzle--i jes know it fer sure...! You still have your old Sako swift? oh yeah-- my boy back in nyc wants it, as he cut his teeth using it on chucks...i'll let em have soon enough, cuz i now use my savage 340 thutty thutty--for serious purposes... remember i reshaped the stock, and had nagorski checker it--the fore end on it is now pear shaped, instead of square, as it was originally when i bought it... now, those kills were plenty dramatic mister--but did ya fix yerself some steaks and eat em in the tall flare of sunset?
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Eyeballs trailing dogs wouldn't get much "training" following up the deer I've shot with my .22 centerfires. Most I have shot with a 223 and 55 gr sp run close to a hundred. The dog is a GSP and great on quail but since I archery hunt I want a dog which could possibly find me a poorly hit deer. I have been bit by Murphys law on more than one occasion. Last year she trailed up the first muley buck by a ranchers grandson and earned me the right to hunting on a ranch money can't buy.
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Eyeballs trailing dogs wouldn't get much "training" following up the deer I've shot with my .22 centerfires. Most I have shot with a 223 and 55 gr sp run close to a hundred. I don't know what to tell ya man.. I've not had one go more than 50 yards after poking it with a .223 yet. In fact, none of the 3 I shot through the lungs with a .22 Magnum and 40 gr. JHP's made it more than 75 yards. You must be shooting them wrong or sumthin'.
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If I'm out hunting varmints or wild dogs with my 223TikkaT3 (1 in 8" Twist) or my 22/250s, I carry a few rounds loaded with 60Gn Partitions, I'd hate to miss out on a freezer filler, if one wandered along.
If I was going to hunt deer exclusively, I'd probably carry my 240Wby or my 270W.
The young lady in question has been shooting with a 35Remington, she will probably be lethal with the 22/250.
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She shoots everything I have very well.
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A mule deer buck I killed 32 years ago with my Sako .220 swift when it still had some varnish on the stock. I shot from the pine ridge in the background. I don't remember what bullet it was, but do remember the buck running about 30 yards before tipping over after a broadside, behind the shoulder shot. Doesn't look like I was wearing out many razors back then......grin! Wearing an Iowa shirt must be good luck ddj
Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau
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I feel a .243 is a better choice. I agree, the 243 is a better choice for big game and the minimum here in Wyoming......
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Can't add much to what has probably been said here in 17 pages of responses..I had a Sporter Weight 22.250 from Ruger that I traded off.. but I tried it several seasons or opportunities..
loaded with a Barnes 53 grain X Bullet, it was bang/flop each time...
also had success with a 223, and 45 grain X Bullet at 22 Hornet velocities...was experimenting instead of trying a stunt as the heavier bullet and caliber crowd like to accuse us off...
I look at needing to know what a rifle can do if one has to rely on it to survive.. yet with limited resources..
on both sides of the family, granddads back during the depression supplied meat on the table to feed families with game that was taken down with a 22LR.... be it squirrel, possum, raccoon, rabbit, deer or whatever..
have a 25/20 that saw a lot of action to put food on the table from the early 1900s to well into the 1940s...an old Marlin 93 that belonged to a friend of the mine, who had no children to pass it down to..
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But, neck or body, please, with regards to the hp.? This is the last buck I shot with my swift(2009). Broadside, behind the shoulder with a 52 Sierra.....it went completely through. The buck in my avatar was shot with the same rifle and a 55gr Hornady. WOW! I only see deer like that in pictures, on barroom walls in the middle of nowhere.. or occasionally just wondering off the hwy east of the Cascades here in Oregon, during the summer when it isn't deer season of course... guy here in town screws with me when he sees me at the range, and he has a Model 54 in 220 Swift, and an old 6 power scope on top of it, that looks like the day it rolled off the factory floor... belonged to his dad, and was the only rifle his dad ever owned to hunt with ( so he says)... but he used it on deer, elk and whatever here in Oregon from 1940 when he got it new to when he passed away or last hunted in 1972....claims to have shot many a deer and elk with it annually, whether legal or illegal ( his dad).... I must admit, the word legal hunting wasn't much of a concern where my grandparents in WVa... my grandad shot deer as needed for meat right up thru 1968 when he passed away.. didn't matter what time of year it was... and so did a lot of other relatives down that way... and I assume most of the other locals... wasn't much law enforcement around to worry about enforcing much of anything.. different place, different times..
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
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IME...you're very good to go with the 22/250. I'd not worry one iota. Take pics for us. Dober ever notice how guys, especially in Montana, accomplish all sorts of stuff, that everyone else on the internet claim is impossible?? they just go out and do it... these two pics are an example.. might have something to do with them understanding the concept of shotplacement.. in a pinch, one of the boys I was taking out hunting, wanted to try to call coyotes.. and Oregon here allows that last week end to stay open for kids UNDER 18.. when the season ends on Friday for everyone else.. we didn't have luck calling up a coyote, but a spike buck was passing thru the area...all the kid had was a 204 with a 34 grain HP in it..one shot, the deer went 50 to 60 yds, like it hadn't been hit.. then layed down... wasn't too much brush around... deer was laying down and panting when we got within 20 yds or him or so.. told Lewis to shoot it in the head.. which he did...and it expired... still that little 20 cal 34 grain HP did a job on the lung it hit.. post mortem... don't read this as recommending the 204 as a deer rig... but in a pinch, it worked out just fine.. shot placement in the lung worked out just fine... shot taken by the kid at 100 yds or so... he just pulled up the rifle and shot before I had a chance to tell him not to...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
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I can't wait until someone shows a picture of a deer killed with a BB gun.
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ever notice how guys, especially in Montana, accomplish all sorts of stuff, that everyone else on the internet claim is impossible??
they just go out and do it...
Dat about wraps it up... Now, where did I leave my Red Ryder...?
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Well, I can't say it didn't get the job done. I just hate to recommend a caliber that needs a perfect shot to work. Especially, for a 16 year old. Who can say they never hit a shoulder when they were aiming behind it?
Then again. I use a 30-30 and a .270 for elk. So, who am I to talk?
Carry on. How bout a 5 yo toting a 223 and 3, 9yos with the largest caliber being a 22-250. I beg to differ. Toby Joe
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This one took it with a 222. They dont work Toby Joe
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Gotta admit...I'm, lovin' this stuff.. good pics TJR...
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ever notice how guys, especially in Montana, accomplish all sorts of stuff, that everyone else on the internet claim is impossible??
they just go out and do it...
Dat about wraps it up... Now, where did I leave my Red Ryder...? Next to the last Mastodon you shot with it ?
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Now that you mention it, that IS what happened to the last of the Great Herds....
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Be careful with that thing - You'll shoot your eye out if you're not careful................
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I started out hunting whitetails with a 22-250. I think it is a great rifle to start a young hunter out on. I have killed more whitetails with a 22-250 and a sierra 55 grain bthp than I have with anything else.
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson
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